10 Things You May Not Know About What Nurses Know
Attired in a spic and span white uniform with her head concealed in an elegant white
cornette and in an ever smiling disposition, the seemingly ubiquitous nurse in any hospital environment may appear to be just a doctor's aide to many. She is in fact much, much more than that. Read on for further surprises.
*She is a walking encyclopedia by virtue of her exposure to a wide variety of subjects during the course of her daily duties like anatomy, biochemistry, computers, dietary science, family planning, mathematics, microbiology and physiology to just name a few.
*She is a semi-graphologist in being able to decipher a score of innumerable doctor's patient prescriptions scribbled with illegible handwriting, correctly every time. The havoc likely to be created by the incorrect reading of the dosages, in particular, is unimaginable. The flip side, being a nurse turned into an eminent writer and blogger following retirement, is courtesy of the nursing profession that infuses passion for the written word.
*She is a Time Manager par excellence, deftly managing the procedural, pharmaceutical, medical, personal and quite often, emotional needs of a large number of patients, concurrently.
*She is a Team Catalyst in mobilizing the timely services of the other members of the team comprising of doctors, nutritionists, social workers etc. notwithstanding the other support services of sanitation and housekeeping.
*She metaphorically dons the role of an unperturbed human Hippopotamus in bearing the brunt of anger and outrage from patients and their families in her daily encounters with them; waking up of sleeping doctors and attendants at odd hours, notwithstanding.
*She is a Customer Service Provider as far as rendering of medical services is concerned, on a virtual round the clock basis with a smile - a no less management expert, without the frills of formal management training!
*She is a God on Earth endowed by God Himself, to sense and ameliorate your pain with her exceptional extra-sensory observation skills of perceiving your facial expressions, gestures, vital signs and breathing pattern.
*She is a patient Teacher in clarifying all the nagging doubts of patients and their family members in respect of the verbal instructions of the doctors, their medical prescriptions and findings of tests done in the laboratories, after their departure from the ward scene.
*She is an expert tight rope walker in juggling from one crisis situation to another without ever losing her calm or charm and defusing each one of them efficiently.
*She is an excellent example of the quick assimilator of the ever advancing, high-tech medical science in dealing with a wide assortment of gadgetry for patient care with ease and without a fuss.
There might not be another profession where a multitude of tasks and roles as above, all rolled into one,as that of the nurse could be found. The nurse and the nursing fraternity deserve your thanks for their selfless devotion to mankind when you meet them next!
by: Susan Bean
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